September 27, 2007

Strange search phrases

Posted by Eric at 8:00 am | Category: Humor, Personal

One of the amusing things to look at when I have time in between experiments is to look at what kind of search phrases people use to find the site. The best ones are from the long tail of search phrases that only one person would ever type:

“earthworm hammer dissection”. I don’t know about you, but generally I don’t use hammers when dissecting things as small as earthworms…

“vitameatavegamin medicine”. I don’t really want to know how many people are taking medical advice from “I Love Lucy”.

“is well done steak higher in water than rare”. I’m not really sure what this means. Are they asking whether well done steak has more water? (It doesn’t.) Are they asking whether it floats compared to rare? (I have no idea.)

“how in the hell does a person create a ‘table of contents’ in microsoft word 2007″. Someone is really frustrated! I don’t know. I’ve sworn off using Word unless I absolutely have to.

“should we treat hospitals differently than we treat farms, car”. There are lots of things wrong with the current health system, but that doesn’t mean we should take it out to the pasture. (cricket) Is this asking about subsidies? I hope we treat our hospitals differently from cars…

“when i hear biochemistry, i think of”. Well, I think of lots of pipetting. And blots. Lots of blots, lots of buffer. And sometimes some nifty, but really expensive, machines.

“what is a parafilm in chemistry?” I’m a big fan of parafilm. It’s a form of wax in a sheet, with some additives that make it more elastic. It’s like the sophisticated man’s plastic wrap, the scientist’s duct tape. More praises cannot be poured over parafilm.

2 Responses to “Strange search phrases”

  1. Miya Says:
    September 27th, 2007 at 2:04 pm

    “More praises cannot be poured over parafilm.”

    Amen!

  2. Ben Says:
    October 1st, 2007 at 12:53 am

    Hey man, I still get random traffic searching for things which I don’t particularly want my blog to be affiliated with…

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